Anyone else in the middle-west get hit bad by the big wind storm?
In my area, it was 35-40 mph sustained winds for a pretty good while.
I know that some people here have renewable energy systems. Any damage or other trouble with wind towers or solar panels?
I just have 3 little Harbor Freight PV panels that I have been experimenting with for a while. One is just on the ground, and the other two are wall-mounted right above it on the front of my garage.
Unfortunately, these panels don't have any good mounting points on them. They only come with "keyholes" to hook onto the crummy rack that comes with them. I had both wall-mount PV panels keyholed onto screws on the outside of the garage.
The wind ripped the one right off, and it broke, hitting the driveway.
It's real cloudy out, and I haven't tested it yet. I would guess that it still works, but would no longer be weather-proof?
Some of the siding on the front of the garage got torn off as well. I had to go pick that off the lawn today.
Two weekends ago, I got to help out on a 7KW ground-mount PV system. I was told that the way we were mounting them was good to 100 mile per hour winds.